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Sister of Teresa Milanollo / Owned the small violin "Milanollo" F. Ruggieri, 1680 c. Wendheim, Gabriele von: Wendheim, Hoffmann, Hofmann von Wendheim, Hoffmann von Wendheim, Gabriele von, Gabrielle: 1835 c. Graz, Austria: 1883 or later: Austrian: Pupil of and dedicatee of Joseph Joachim's Nocturno for violin and orchestra, Op.12 (1858) / [12 ...
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (/ ˈ r uː b ɪ n /; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves .
Vera Dourmashkin Rubin (August 6, 1911 – February 7, 1985) was an anthropologist and the founder and first director of the Research Institute for the Study of Man. She specialised in the anthropology of the Caribbean .
The U.S. Mint has unveiled designs for quarters featuring important women in history, including journalist Ida B. Wells and tennis player Althea Gibson. The designs are part of the final series of ...
Vera Tsu Weiling (born 1960) is a professional violinist and Professor and Master tutor of the Central Conservatory in Beijing and Shanghai Conservatory. She is featured in the Academy Award winning documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China , directed by Murray Lerner .
She used galaxies' rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. American Girl is an American line of 18-inch (46 cm) dolls released originally in 1986 by Pleasant Company (now Mattel). The dolls portray eight to thirteen-year-old girls of a variety of backgrounds. They are sold with accompanying books told from the viewpoint of the girls. Originally ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory under construction in Chile. Its main task will be carrying out a synoptic astronomical survey , the Legacy Survey of Space and Time .